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THE EAGLb Published Every Thursday in the and surrounding Community interest of CherryvMo Entered am Second Class Ma*l matter August ^ J in the Post Office at Cherryville, N. 0.. Congress March 3rd. 18.9 FRED K. HOUSER MRS. CREOLA HOUSER (Local and Society Editor) V t' _ 1 a t PocilplU! Editor and Publisher ''«U. Telephones Office, 2101 - Resilence, 2B0l One year Six months — Four months - Three months SUBSCRIPTION RATES I Payable in Advance ^ ^ __— ~-" ” .86 _" ■ __.so --- - .60 wa„o«o. Adv.Mi,;;, ■•p'-"-,v* Rh!HIU« P«» ASS°““'°\ York • Ch>.ooo . Detroit • Pl.itod*>°hia THURSDAY. AUGUST A. 1944 CARL SUMMER * rarl summer, which was not only The sudden passing of C ^ thi9 entire sec • shock to Cherryville and Utl8 °" L Cherryville one of its most tJo* of the state, has removed non. Cher y loyal and valuable citizens. with his parents in the Mr. Summer cam* to C£ ^ career a3 the or year 1901 and »n early life * Loan Association of ganizer of the Cherryville Building i Later he which he was secretary-treasurer *usiness and follow* » • T*>vt iln manuluctun»*K DUS,HW was engaged in the Text business. establishing the owing that he went mto the Lumbe ^ # gen. Dixie Lumber Company and super nae eral way until the time ^ was a friend to everybody, Carl Summer was a ut.z. . h among whom there ever regardless of class, creed o ^ ^ friendship and kindly in remained that deep >*nsi ' - hig {riendSi gently and af terest. He was accommoda . unUmel death brings pro "ef^d":": n- only among his own people, but .Iso to hundreds of others in the community. boy friend rationing The chances ate more than two to one aga.nst a young woman being able to fmd a single boy friend dur.ng these war show t«.t th.r. w. now only 1,700.000 -- ,i«J men botwo.n th« «<* of 20 and 34 in civil,.,, IX. »* against over 4,000,000 unmarried women >n the same age group. And the majority of those available young men are located in cities, working in wa. factories, so the plight of the country girl is even worse than that of her city sister. In ordinary times the girls have the advantage. In 1940, for example, there were th.ee unmarried men for every two un married women. Some girls, we understand, think the government ought to do something about the situation—such as organizing a ration ing system for the use of boy friends. But evidently the war production board has not yet come to the conclusion that a boy friend is an essential commodity. WE’RE NOT ALL RICH YET Sometimes a lot of us get discouraged over feeling that practically everybody else in the country is getting rich during this period of prosperity and' that we, somehow, have lost out on a rare opportunity. It may therefore be comforting to those who don't own any yachts and don’t have their pockets bulging with cash to look at recent treasury figures which show that of 67,300,000 people who reported incomes, 49,000,000 earn less than $2,000 a year and only 1,700,0000, or less than three per cent, are making over $5,000 a year. When you take taxes into consideration the income is con siderably less. For the 19 million who earn under $2,000, the average earnings which they keep after taxes amount to only $1,300 a year. The country may be prosperous today, hut there are still plenty of people who have to watch their pennies with both •yes. WHY NOT STAY HOME? American railroads touay are doing more than two and a half times the passenger business Uiey uid beiore me war. American busses are carrying ball again as many passengers as they did a year ago. in normal times we d call this good business. Actually it s a cusis. Here’s wny: The railroads must carry 1,500,000 a month on regular troop movements. That takes hall the Pullman sleeping cars and almost one-third of the day coaches. Fur lough travel, which means boys seeing their folks before they go overseas, takes more cars. Necessary war activities, includ ing movements of war workers, require cars. In Europe and in the Pacific fighting is going on. The wounded are being brought home. They need railway cars and will have them—whoever else, or his uncle or his aunt or his friend with a pull, has to get off. Busses get a gooa many of the short hauls, some of the long hauls, and the overflow. On busses as on trains we are at • point where if a man who doesn't have to travel gets on a man who has to tiavel is crowded off. Little new equipment can be provided. The old is wearing out. So what to do? The answer is simple if not sweet; Stay at home if you possibly can. If you insist on travelling when you don’t have to, expect to be delayed, expect to stand in aisles of crowded cars, expect to miss meals, expect to carry your own baggage, expect to be dumped off if the railroad needs your tpaee—be prepared, in short, for a mild little hell on wheels. If you get fun out of it a»k yourself, was it right and did you deaerve it? The man or woman who stays home this summer is ser ing the country. The nan or woman who goes gadding in publi’ conveyances on needless errands isn’t.—Gastonia Gazette. |The:Only*‘Int^a Collapse’ tojatisfy Us BERLIN TOWN and FARM • in WARTIME f 4 Pfpwd by OPPICI OP WAR INFORMATION REMINDERS MEATS. FATS—Red Stamps A8 through Z8 and A5 through D5, good indefinitely. PROCESSED FOODS — Blue Stamps A8 through Z8 and A5 through F5. good indefinitely. SUGAR — Sugar Stamps 30, 31 and 32, each good for five pounds indefinitely, and 33 good for five pounds after September 1 and remains good indefinitely. Sugar Stamp 40, good for five pounds of canning sugar through February, next year. GASOLINE—In 17 East Coast States, A-l 1 coupons, good thru November 8. In States outside the East Coast Area, A-12 cou pons, good through Septembei 21. FUEL OIL—Period 4 and 5 eou pons, good through September 30. New Period 1 coupons now good. ■SHOES — Airplane Stamps 1 and 2, good indefinitely. Keep War Plant* Manned —Byrne* "We are still critically short of manpower in the neighborhood ol plants making heavy guns and amunition, bombs, radar equipment, trucks, tanks, con struction equipment, tires and tentage fabric,” James F. Byrnes, Director of War Mobilization, de clared in connection with a direc tive providing for the shutting ort of materials, fuel, power and ser vices necessary to turn production facilities to the making of these emergency war materials. “We are going to handle the problem in the area where the plants are lo cated,” he stated. "We have plac ed responsibility on the urea of ficials to take all necessary steps to free from civilian and less essential inlustries, men possess ing the skills required to produce war goods." Wherever local com mittees in charge of the problem have excess manpower "they must accept a quota for recruitment in order to meet the needs of other critical areas.” he explained. Military Has Severe Shortage* “Production has dropped off slightly in the face of increased demands, from overseas,’ lien. Brehon B. Somervell, of the Ar my Service Forces, said in citing some specific shortages suffered in various military theaters of war. Some examples cited were: One general had to call off 100 air missions because of lack of the right type of bombs; another general said he had to abandon 3,500 heavy trucks, which have to be replaced; rate of fire for artillery has more than doubled above estimates, thus increasing demands for new guns, replace ment linings and ammunition. Heavy artillery rather than air power broke deadlocks at Anzio, Cassino and in Normandy, Gen eral Somervell said. OPA Change* Point Value* No more ration point* for util ity grade* of beef and lamb will bo required through September 2, and for the tame period point value* have been restored on pork loin*, pork ham* and canned fish, the Office of Price Administra tion ha* announced. Cheeses were increased fro mtwo to four points a pound and farm or.country but ter from eight to 12 point* a pound. Laundry Stoves Unrationed Rationing restrictions have been removed from coal-wood laundry stoves and gas ranges with non metallic outside hack or side pan el*, OPA reports. The adequate supply of the small, flat-top laun dry stoves, usually made of cast iron and used in many homes for laundry and auxiliary heating, made possible removal of ration ing restrictions on these stoves. Your Motor “Ping*” for Victory^ If your motor car engine “pings" a bit when you go up hill nr accelerate rapidly, just remem ber that the tetraethyl lead you and other civilians might have had in your gasoline is helping to pro duceeach month an extra 210 mil lion gallons of 100-octane avia- i tion gasoline for military use, ac- | cording to the Petroleum Admin istration for War. Rural Homes Need Better Water More than five million rural ' homes need new or improved wa ter supplies, according to the cur rent issue of Public Health Re ports. A like number of rural homes need sanitary privies. Thg Public Health Sendee says that j 840,148 rural homes are entirely [ without toilet facilities. A total ! of i.Still,007 rural homes are with- j out water supply within 50 feet, and the Water supplies of an au- I ditional 0,708,903 homes have san- | itary defects. Public Health Ser vice sanitary engineers estimated that it would cost $20g,000,000 to provide safe water supplies for the rural homes that need them. Apple Price* Down Slightly The national average price of 10 1-4 cents a pound is what con- ] sumers may have to pay for the i 1944 crop of fresh apples for ta ble use, according to OPA action effective August 10. Last year the season's average price was 10 1-2 cents a pound. rt tannoi uie u. uraaei A rider to the OPA appropria | lion t>ill which-prevents use of U. j S. grades established by the De partment of Agriculture in con I uectiun with price control of any canned fruits and vegetables will make OPA's enforcement job har der, according to Price Adminis trator Chester Bowles, but, he .said “we propose to use our ut most efforts to secure compliance | in this difficult field.” See» Threat to German Industry The Polish territories so far con quered by the Russians are chief | ly agricultural, Leo T. Crowley, Foreign Economic Administrtftor, said in a statement explaining the economic importance of the Polish areas still under German domina tion. German loss of the largest part of the District of Galicia, Central Poind, Polish Silesia and the north-western provinces of Poznan and Pomorze would help the Allies in three ways: 1, It would deprive Germany of coal, iron, oil, timber, zinc, and such important war industries as iron and steel, engineering and oil re fining; 2, it woull deprive her of a large source of war labor; 3, it would deprive her of an area hith erto comparatively free from Al lied bombing in which she had been developing new war indus tries. “Bravery Alone I* Not Enough” “Bravefry alone is not enough to win battles,” declared General A. A. Vandergrift, Commandant of the Marine Corps in urging youths of pre-military age to re turn to high school this fall. “To I have bravery without knowledge is to be only half prepared. If you have been employed in the | factory or on the farm this sum mer . . . you should plan to go ' back to high school this fall. We in the Marine Corps feel you can best serve your nation ai;l your your fellow men at school, now, building the sound mind in the sound body." . . .v Work Clothing Price* JtevUed While retail prices on war mo dels of simplified and standardiz ed men* dungaree* and overall jackets anl men’s and boys’ bib overalls are increased at all sales levels, effective August 26, under a revision of the GPA staple wuik clothing price regulation, the av erage retail price of the sanfor ized chambry work shirt in inde pendent stores will be reduced a bout 10 cents a garment. Retail prices of other garments on the average will be no higher than at present and lower than prices at which many of these garments sold in recent months. OPA as sures consumers that altogether the price revisions will “hold tire line” on the cost of living. “Christina* Mailing Month” September 15 to October 15 has been named “Christmas Mail ing Month” by the Army and Na vi , which this year have 33,000 formed men and women in tm ir postal services tc handle an t ,:,iated 70 million Christmas ; ^seats—three times as many as ii.,-1 tear, the Office of War In formation says. Packages mailed ..til ing “Christmas Mailing Month” would reach their destination by Christmas day. Packages should weigh no more than five pounds and have combined length, width and depth of not more than 36 inches. Danish Student* Help Norwegian* banish university sLudct ts who for some years have helped Dan ish farmers get in the harvest without charge, this year are de manding a small weekly allow ance, the money to be used ex clusively to buy foodstuffs to be sent to the Norwegians, according to the Danish Information Service Round-up OPA announces: Mark-ups rang ing from $3.50 to $8 a hundred pounds for quality cleaned grass and legume seeds when sold by farmer-producer to a planter . . . Maximum prices to be establish ed on cabbage sold by growers on the average will cause no in creases in retail ceilings . . . Ma ternity dresses that will retail for $1.89 and $2 and slips that will retail for $1.05 and $1.15 have been added to the list of garments in the program of low-priced gar ments that meet WPB specif ica seed have been increased five cents a bushel at the basing points of Minneapolis, Duluth and Red Wing, in Minnesota; Milwau kee, Wise.; Chicago, 111., and Portland, Ore. . . . Express or mailing expense may be added to ceiling prices on mail order re tail sales of pork cuts and sau sage products. WFA says: When you get a basket containing fruit or vegeta bles, give the empty basket back to the peddler or groceryman lrom whom it came so that he can send it on its way to the farmers, who this year will have to send part if not all of their crop to market in used containers . , . Almost none of 800 housewives interviewed in one survey started working members of their fami lies off with a well-balanced breakfast, the needed fruit or ce real geherally being missing. WPB says: Only in .extreme emergencies such as damage caused to dwellings by fire, flood, tornado, earthquake, storm or similar catastrophe, may home owners get preference ratings from their nearest Federal Hous ing Administration field office to obtain lumber for repair work . . . In no month have waste paper collections met the goal set by WPB, aid the drive is 450.0090 tors short of its 1944 objective. tPat every dollar above U>« necessities of life into War Bonds. Payroll Savings la the best means of doing your best In helping your sons and friends on the fighting fronts. Fif ure it out yourself. 0 ■mow to wn Aofttor of mm* /M NRUDKI ftOfUT WORKED HARD TO RESIGN Are you thinking of resigning your job? Well, listen to the story of a young Swedish boy who once had that idea, lie couldn’t be blamed because he was getting oniy $35 a month as a soda jerk. His name was Charles R. Walgreen. Born on a farm in Illinois, he had come to Chicago to get. a good job— the job included waiting on a fountain. One day, Mrs. Sourpuss came in, ordered a glass of Vichy water in a hurry, had to catch a street car. Since the woman was in such a hurry, young Charlie Walgreen, washing the glassware, took a glass from the sodium wa ter he was using and without waiting to dry it filled it with Vichy water. The sodium water gave the glass a smoky appearance, so the customer thought it dirty. She hit the ceiling; well at least the chandelier, and gave *he boy a piece of her mind. She forgot all about matching the street car. Then she went to the rear of the rtore and told her story to Mr. Valentine, the proprietor. He knew the glass wasn't dirty, but he wanted to salve [he customer’s ragged wound, so he jumped all over the clerk. Charlie Wnlgren was so mad that he made up his mind to resign. But. some customers came in at that moment and kept him busy. At last the opportunity came for him to go to the boss and throw up his job. But the boss had gone to lunch. So he had a chance to cool off and do some thinking. He said to himself. “T am no good as a clerk and if I resigned now it would reallv he a relief to the boss. TM1 stay on a while, work hard and become a good clerk. Then when I walk out. it will give the ‘old cuss’ a jolt.” So he started in to work very hard indeed. He put all the stack in order, worked longer hours, even shortened his lunch period. Friday night the boss said: “Charlie. 1 never saw such a transformation in anybody in my lire. You’ve improved so that I am going: to v-hiso your salary.” When Charlie finally gave up that job, he discovered th 't he had had a lot of fun out of it. and a raise m salary without asking for it. Walgren told mo personally That his desire jo show his boss he was a good clerk before he resigned " changed his life and resulted in what.€WC »ue cess ho had attained. i He is dead now. but there are more than 500 Walgreen stores. Probably he never would have founded them n he had resigned that day. 1 MivMriRTWAR BONDS AND STAMPS BEHIND THE SCENES '■ IN AMERICAN BUSINESS , \ By JOHN CRAPPOCK. V -V y j L MEW YORK. Aug. ginning this week, regional direc tors of the War Production Board ,iave authority to. allow UmRed output of scarce civilian R0°d Xue this will not interfere with the war effort. While this should ieln to lap down a pattern tor reconversion, it is generally he lieved in business circles that it tioes not promise any important increase in Civilian production for the period immediately ahead Merchants therefore ate not counting on having much add tionul merchandise to otfei to sumers this lull. chietly necks in war production, chietly due to the need for more work ers, continue to he the stee in dustry, the foundries, and the heavy truck and tire factoiies Re toiler* can figure, however that more miscellaneou s durable goods will be available, and some sof goods also. But cotton good* 'Will remain scarce because a further diversion of looms from civilian goods to heavy military fabrics has been ordered. RADIO RAILROADING Youths with ambitions to become railway trainmen will have to practice diction these days—m addition to the arm-waving sema phore code usually associated with conductors and brakemen. Success of tests conducted with leading railroads from coast to coast by Bendix Aviation corpor ation’s Radio division has denton stiated that radio communications may give most of tomorrow’s or ders for both long-distance freight and terminal switching operations as well as for passenger train dis patching. Current joint experiments, us ing var-spurred rapid develop ments in high frequency radio com munications, have proved effective on such railroads as the Atchison, Topeka and Sante Fe, the Sea board Air Line, the Chicago, Bur lington and Quincy, the Baltimore and Ohio and the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific. It is anticipated that success ful completion of these tests will enable railroads to supplement ex isting signal facilities with radio for greater safety, operating ef fectiveness and economy, nose being used on the stratos phere "Jap-buster,” reveal that the forepart serves a double pur SUPER SCHNOZZLE — When the Superfortress, the B-29, start ed raining deadly projectiles on Japan from 20th Airforce bases, a new nose was literally being poked into Nipponese affairs. Technicians of the Libbey-Owens Ford Glass company who cooperat ed with the Boeing Company in designing the eight section* of specially-curved glass and plastic which comprise tue new type of nose being used on the stratos phere “Jap-buster,” reveal that the forepart »erves a double pur pose: it acts both as a windshield k through,., which pilot* actually "sight' for landing*, and prOVldu a special sighting window for bom bardiers. Development of the pew nose increased streamlining of the ship by eliminating the us ual projection of the pii t s cabin above the nose contour, nctuully permitting pilots to fly the B-29 “right through the nose." '1 be speed viln winch the hips were ccmtructed is indicated in the re port that a speciul an-transport freig. t servire was p.-i.ihed be tween the glass company’s plants in Toledo, and Hoeing lactones at Wichita, Kan., and oliiei points. REAL ESTATE—Urban real estate, in the last two years, has been following the example of its big country cousin, farm land City properties today in most parts of the country are up to 10 to SO per cent over prewar levels, and a few have ris«i even more, This may confound those who figure that, with 10,000,000 Amer icans in the armed forces theic’d be housing and business proper ties to spare in many cities, As often happens in economics, the ories are proved wrong by actual events. A surprisingly large number i f families are living in two or time places. This results from one or more members of a family being away from home on a war job or to live near a relative in a military camp. Another unexpected devel opment is the buying of retail store locations by merchants who have surplus cash and wish o take advantage of depreciation and other charge-off on income tax permittel to the owners of business property. Estimates are that building costs immediately after the war will be 20 to 30 per cent higher, If, and as long as, such cost? pre vail, present prices for existent properties will not be out of line in most cases. BITS O BUSINESS—Indica tive of the rising confidence a mong British investors in the success of Allied arms is the rise in price of German bonds in the London market. From a price of $75 per $1.0000 bond in Febru ary, 1944, the bonds have in creased to $165 . . . Since 1900 the proportion of the nation’s working population in agriculture has dropped from 37 to 15 per cent. This trend is expected to continue with increased farm mechanization after the war . , . Estimates indicate that in 1944 retail sales will hit an all-time high of between 66 anl 68 million^ dollars—20 million more than In the boom year of ’29. Put Yon* Payroll Savings off a Family Basis Make 10 per eeat
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